Rock Stars Speak Out Against ‘Trans’

CV NEWS FEED // Multiple mainstream music icons have recently gone on the record publicly denouncing the “trans” movement, and especially the sharp increase in subjecting children to so-called “gender-affirming care.”

In an interview with the music blog Stereogum which was posted Wednesday, pioneering glam rock artist Alice Cooper had strong words when asked what he thought about the so-called “gender identity” movement that is being pushed on children.

Cooper said he is afraid transgenderism has become a “fad.”

“I’m afraid there’s a lot of people claiming to be this just because they want to be that,” he said:

I find it wrong when you’ve got a six-year-old kid who has no idea. He just wants to play, and you’re confusing him telling him, “Yeah, you’re a boy, but you could be a girl if you want to be.”

He continued by describing how the “trans” movement is “so confusing to a kid” and noting that “woke” and pro-“trans” rules do not make logical sense:

It’s even confusing to a teenager. You’re still trying to find your identity, and yet here’s this thing going on, saying, “Yeah, but you can be anything you want. You can be a cat if you want to be.” I mean, if you identify as a tree… And I’m going, “Come on! What are we in, a Kurt Vonnegut novel?” It’s so absurd, that it’s gone now to the point of absurdity.

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Is there a building somewhere in New York where people sit down every day and say, “Okay, we can’t say ‘mother’ now. We have to say ‘birthing person.’ Get that out on the wire right now”? Who is this person that’s making these rules? I don’t get it. I’m not being old school about it. I’m being logical about it.

Later in the interview, Cooper summarized his stance on the issue: “A lot of times, I look at it this way, the logical way: If you have these genitals, you’re a boy. If you have those genitals, you’re a girl.”

When the interviewer challenged Cooper, saying that parents should “listen” to their children and “find pediatricians that provide appropriate care,” he replied:

Well, I can see somebody really taking advantage of this, though. A guy can walk into a woman’s bathroom at any time and just say, “I just feel like I’m a woman today” and have the time of his life in there, and he’s not in the least bit… He’s just taking advantage of that situation. Well, that’s going to happen. Somebody’s going to get raped, and the guy’s going to say, “Well, I felt like a girl that day, and then I felt like a guy.” Where do you draw this line?

Days after the interview was published, Vampyre Cosmetics, a company that makes gothic makeup, canceled Cooper, terminating their partnership with him.

Known for megahits such as “School’s Out” and “Poison,” the 75-year-old Rock-and-Roll-Hall-of-Famer was born Vincent Furnier. He founded a band called “Alice Cooper” in the mid-1960s, using the same name for his stage persona as its frontman. When the band broke up about a decade later, Furnier legally changed his name to the moniker, using it to embark on a successful solo career. 

Cooper’s performances are known for their theatrics, which have included fake blood and live snakes. As the interviewer noted, Cooper has previously gone on the record saying his heavy use of makeup has “nothing to do with sexuality,” adding: “Lots of men who perform wear make-up – that’s a theatrical tradition.”

Despite his gory stage persona, Cooper is an outspoken born-again Christian and has credited his faith in God with his recovery from alcoholism. He has been married to his wife since 1976 and is a father of three.

Cooper has previously referred to himself as “the biggest moderate you know” and said he is “extremely nonpolitical.”

The “Godfather of Shock Rock” is not the first musical megastar to speak out against the “trans” movement.

In May, KISS singer and guitarist Paul Stanley called the situation “a sad and dangerous fad” in an Instagram post titled “My Thoughts On What I’m Seeing.”

“There is a BIG difference between teaching acceptance,” he wrote, “and normalizing and even encouraging participation in a lifestyle that confuses young children into questioning their sexual identification as though some sort of game and then parents in some cases allow it.”

Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider retweeted Stanley’s post, which caused a San Francisco “pride” event to cancel his scheduled performance there.

After receiving much backlash from “trans” activists, Stanley moderated his tone on the issue, saying, “While my thoughts were clear, my words clearly were not.” A “paragraph or two” was “far too short” for him to convey his point of view on the issue, he wrote.

Finally, iconic Latin rock guitarist Carlos Santana confronted gender ideology during a late July concert in Atlantic City.

“When God made you and me before we came out of the womb, you know who you are and what you are,” said the artist. 

“A woman is a woman and a man is a man,” he said. “That’s it. Whatever you wanna do in the closet, that’s your business. I’m OK with that.”

Santana later posted an apology saying, “I realize that what I said hurt people, and that was not my intent. I sincerely apologize to the transgender community and everyone I offended.”

He subsequently deleted the apology from his Facebook page and posted a poem with the words “hate begets hate” and “love begets love.”